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Show Al6 TheS.Salt Lake Tribune Gateway Jumps Aboard a Fortune nues expected to reach n this year The company’s bigge st short coming, however. been slow to seek out The 2002 Train follows the consumer computer market for International Data Corp. Gateway’s by-the-boostraps is not unlike the life sto letes who: dil turns to riumph on the Olympic stage The company was literally born na barn in 1985, on a ranch neat wrth Sioux City, S.D., where Ted Waitt’s family raised cattle for four generations Then a 20-year-old college dropout, Waitt and co-founder like Hammond pioneered the ystem of selling viny to use the Internet as its pri nary sales tool. In its first year Gateway sold $100,000 in com vuter merchandise, Fifteen years iter, Gateway has matured into. powers SLOC's website and most sponsorsare allowedto tout their Oly mpie affiliations on their own websit retain its position as the world’s largest direct computer seller. Olhava said enabled competitor Dell to The Olympics will provide an ven without the Internet connection, Gatewaystandsto profit, “Being the hardware provider excellent platform for business to-business marketing, Olhava still carries quite a bit of weight,” she said. Whether Gatewaywill milk its npany’s future success. Olympic sponsorship for all it’s worth remains to be seen. But if though than pushing PCs. track to generate 10 income from other » from more Gateway is on percent of its sources, the the firm’s playful past is any indi cation, Gateway's advertising campaign could be moo-ving Prominently featured in its com: most important of which is its puter commercials are Bonnie, two-year-old Internet servi Hanako and Colleen, Gateway free now Internet offers one year ¢ service to anyone buying a personal computer that costs $999 or more. The number of made-to-order omputers directly to customers ind wasthe first computer com it has inj lusivity to any one bi ness for now. US West curren customers fori ing out on a jucrative market that has @ Continued from A-1 UTAH/WORLD the IOC has decidedagainstoffer 250 company w net customers 1,000 to doubled from 400,000 in the second quarter of 1999 It is unclear what, if any Internet-related rights will com with Gateway’s Olympic partner ship. Worried ing Internet-related sj yonsorships three Hol s. And the company’s features the Cow Zone, where you can read cow poetry or download a cow screen saver Obviously, we don’t take our selves too erjously,” marketing. communications director Greg Lund said in a 1997 interview Wednesday November3, 1999 Teen Goes Free After 5 Days of Detention For Writing Horror Story Involving Teacher THE DALLAS MORNINC NEWS DENTON, Texas Christo: pher Beamonwalkedout of juve nile detention Tuesday wearing5 day-old clothes, craving Taco Bell and facing the prospect of celebrity He had been held at the Denton County facility since Thursday for w ng a Halloween horror story that described killing a teacher and two classmates. “It seems like a year ago, a big ol’ long year the chubby cheeked 13-year-old said bet bites of a bean burrito. "I s my cell and read my Bible.” Denton County Juvenile Court Judge Darlene W ten had ordered Christopher detained fo: jays after reviewing his Pon r High School disciplinary cords, officials said. She “We're South Dakota. We're not approved the early release after Madison Avenue or Nob Hill.” Starting today, they're Olym: his freedom, journalists began the family’s attorneys demanded highlighting the case and the dis- ict attorney said he didn’t want to prosecute. Christopher and his mothersaid students were told to write an imaginary story about being In an interview before the seventh-grader was released. homealonein the dark andhear- cifics of the but said she takes any s ent about or threat of bodily harm seriously ney BruceIsaacks said Tuesday Whitten declined to discuss spe. I do want people to under stand that st like making a threat at an airport, a threat in a school situation is very serious even if it was in jest,” she said Christopher's mother, Jan Beamon, said she was concerned about the content of her son's y but that it should have been andled by schoo} officials, not criminal authorities The boy's court-appointed attorney, Kimberly McCary, said Christopher was only following directions when he wrote the her, Amanda Hen: ry, declined to comment; ing noises. Denton CountyDistrict Attor- that he did not plan to prosecute thec: x like to methe child what the teacher told him to do, which was to write a scary story,” Isaacks said. “But this child does appear to be aper sistent discipline problem for this school, and the administrators itimately cone Christopher received a grade of 100 on the essay. plus extra credit for reading it aloud. Par: there ents of students named in the essay called Principal Chance Allen expressing concern that Christopher children. might harm their pic Boulevard Kurpon Union Is Ready to Join IOC Drug Agency SOCIATED PRESS LAUSANNE, commissioner Switzerland fhe European Union is ready to participate in the IOC's drug iwency that is to start next U.S. drug adviser Barry McCaffrey opposes the [OC plan contending that the agency would lack full independence and input from governments The 15-nation EU agreed to ike part after its sports met with 10¢ Viviane Reding president Juan Antonio Samaranch on Tuesday The agency is to supervise out-ofcompetition testing with sports federations. The United States wants a drug agency that is nottied to the Pram etities eae Draag worldwide drug testing and pol 100. 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